What can old Barney say except this film was real bad. It's a TV movie and Craven directs it like one - big long takes of people spouting the most truly hilarious dialogue you can imagine... It is funny to think this was the same guy that made Nightmare on Elmstreet.
The entire film is shot on the brightest of days and this serious doesn't help in building any terror but strangely it does enhance that play on teenage anxiety, jealousy and insecurity and I guess this is what keeps you watching to the end - you can identify with that position of being a teen again and all the terror (and boy oh boy that's real terror) that goes with it - if only the dialogue, plotting and direction (sorry Wes) wasn't so bad. Oh and the acting...don't get me started!
The entire film is shot on the brightest of days and this serious doesn't help in building any terror but strangely it does enhance that play on teenage anxiety, jealousy and insecurity and I guess this is what keeps you watching to the end - you can identify with that position of being a teen again and all the terror (and boy oh boy that's real terror) that goes with it - if only the dialogue, plotting and direction (sorry Wes) wasn't so bad. Oh and the acting...don't get me started!